WRITTEN ON February 26th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
There’s a nice bit of intellectual-pygmy TV with Simon and Gus from PI propping up the LSE bar talking through their political persecution over the ID project. My noble Lords, I won’t cast aspersions on the LSE (but let’s all have a go at Simon Davies anyway). It’s an interesting story, far from Ideal, and worth a bit more work including some FoI digging and the naming of some more names.
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Interesting, isn’t it, that given the amount of effort gone into blackguarding the LSE report, the Home Office is now behaving as if it never existed:
Hillier:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/409d0dfe-e0e8-11dc-b0d7-0000779fd2ac.html
I challenge opponents of the scheme to set out how they would go about doing this without implementing something that contained the basic features of what the government is proposing.
I might not like their version either, but the Identity Project did this two-and-a-half years ago, in rather more convincing detail than has ever been presented by HMG for any version of its mutating citizen-index.
Some data protection act subject access requests would probably go a long way.